And it’s not even working as strategy for attracting Reform voters, as he’s basically standing up and saying “Farage was right all along”, which doesn’t attract the voters back to Labour but drives them further to Reform.

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve:

Knocking decapitated czar’s head out. Soviet leader is next. Down with tyrants! (2, 5)

www.minutecryptic.com/custom/a391b...

Starmer will go down in history as the prime minister who handed the UK to the far right in a plate.

And you’re right how difficult it is to leave. I did my best to (finally) leave when they announced the BNP branding for the membership cards. Cancelled my direct debit, filled in an online form I found. Yet I still received the new membership card a month or so later.

Those numbers are still down by 24,000 since this article at the end of August, so still shedding at some rate:

www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ve discovered this tag twice, thought “that sounds really useful”, and then promptly forgot all about it again.

Most recently when AI used it in some html it generated, I assumed it was hallucinating, then found it was a real tag. Then when reading about it I realised I’d read about it before. 🤦

As it’s kind of spooky season now, here’s a Minute Cryptic I made:

Mid-level zombie, initially trapped in ghastly maze, nourishes itself noisily eating heads (9)

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Tea bags are a sanitary disposable?

“Occasionally it leads to one of the two main parties being replaced e.g. the Liberal party by Labour”

‘Occasionally’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. It’s basically happened once — over a hundred years ago. Though, it does look like it might happen again.

Not a direct adaptation of a video game (and neither is Tron), but Wreck-It Ralph takes inspiration from arcade games in general, and turns that into a genuinely enjoyable film.

“Hey, but at least we now recognise the state they are obliterating with our weapons, right?”

If you can’t come up with an idea for the popular website, steal it off someone else, or buy an already popular one.

I have no idea what a belt-fed LMG is, but will concede I was mistaken. They still look like flamethrowers fed by fuel lines to me in the context of the t-shirt, so it still feel that may have been the intention.

Not that it really matters, as it’s still just a contrived fuss over nothing.

He’ll surely have at least one more stab at pretending he didn’t lose the snap election he called.

I’m assuming it’s too obvious for anyone to mention, but they’re flamethrowers right? Writing out the flaming letters?

(also, you just know Trump would do the same in a heartbeat if he could find a way to, and probably has people trying to find that way.)

Indeed, though the 1938 election (the year the video is referring to), was a single party (and guests) “landslide” majority.

I believe the video is also hinting at the spin/propaganda in both cases used to obfuscate the reality of the popularity/success levels of each party.

Also, it’s talking about Nazi Germany.

It’s so sad how all the icons on my iOS home screen are slowly being made uglier to align with iOS 26. 😭

The super blurry Slack one is the worst (I hope it’s an error), though the @monzo.com one makes me sad too.

They might look better if I updated to 26, but everything else will look worse.

I created a bit of a silly Minute Cryptic for you to solve:

Throttles vicars (4)

(I’m sure I can’t be the first to spot this)

www.minutecryptic.com/custom/2986f...

Haha, I find it more an annoying inability to ignore something that’s confusing me than a tenacity to be admitted, but thanks.

And I remember our language teachers getting annoyed at us for not knowing any grammar terms. Most formal grammar I know is from French and German GCSEs.

It’s just a lot easier than having to learn what “parts of speech” are. I tend to have a good natural instinct for whether a sentence sounds right, it can really hurt my head trying to figure out if something is a verb or a noun in a sentence, and don’t even get me started in adjectives & the rest…

I also don’t really understand what “answers the question what” means. I spent a while trying to get AI to explain it to me, but didn’t have much luck, because “that tarnishes old metal” never seemed to sit well in the examples.

I’ll stick with the substitution rule, as that’s easier to understand.